God imagine all that time and effort spent to suddenly lose it all, you must feel like commiting suicide. Its bad enough when you lose a page of text without saving it in time and have to redo it all, imagine a whole album, apparently it happened to Orbital as well.

Yes, I can only imagine what that must feel like - I've lost documents (etc) due to computer crashes, but nothing that couldn't be put right with a week or so work...

Nowadays, I backup my main personal interests (music/genealogy documents) onto a mirrored network drive at home (i.e. if one drive dies, then at least I can get it working again), which I then (at various intervals) backup onto a DVD-R...